Jeanetta Calhoun Mish (born 1961) is an American poet and served as

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's twenty-first

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Born in

Hobart, Oklahoma Hobart is a city in, and the county seat of, Kiowa County, Oklahoma, United States. It was named for Garret Hobart, the 24th Vice President of the United States. The population was 3,756 at the 2010 census, a decline of 6.0 percent from the figu ...

in 1961, Mish was educated at the

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, the

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of the Permian Basin, and the

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, where she earned her

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in 2009. She is a faculty member in the Red Earth MFA in creative writing at

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, which she also serves as program director. Mish is the founder and editor of Mongrel Empire Press, based in

Norman, Oklahoma Norman () is the third-largest city in the U.S. state of Oklahoma, with a population of 128,097 as of 2021. It is the largest city and the county seat of Cleveland County, Oklahoma, Cleveland County, and the second-largest city in the Oklahoma C ...

Works

* ''Tongue-Tied Woman'' (Soulspeak, 2001) * ''Work is Love Mad Visible'' (West End Press, 2009) * ''Ain't Nobody that can Sing like Me: New Oklahoma Writing,'' ed. (Mongrel Empire Press, 2010) * ''Oklahomeland: Essays'' (Lamar University Press, 2015) * ''What I Learned at the War'' (West End Press, 2016)

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1961 births Living people Poets Laureate of Oklahoma People from Hobart, Oklahoma University of Houston alumni University of Texas Permian Basin alumni University of Oklahoma alumni Oklahoma City University faculty American women poets 21st-century American poets American women academics 21st-century American women writers {{US-poet-1960s-stub

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